Lakes International Festival 2014 seeking home stay volunteers

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2014 has requested home stay volunteers.

The Kendall-based festival has posted a request for locals willing to host their guests and creators for the duration of the October comics event.

Lakes International Comic Art Festival

"We currently have a small and very beautiful group of local people and families who host artists and guests in their homes during the festival," said the organisers on their website.

"Mostly our lovely folk and families take guests in on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings of the festival, although sometimes it can be for longer. They offer guests a private room to stay in and breakfast (for which we reimburse their expenses) and very often provide directions and some local knowledge!

"It is hopefully a really interesting and sociable way to support the festival, which our artists and guests love, and which also means that we don't take up all the valuable accommodation in the town for visitors coming in. We would very much like to grow our Home Stay group in 2014."

Interested parties are encouraged to complete a home stay form and return it to the organisers.